VICTORIA JEALOUSE

LEGENDARY INFO:

D.O.B.: 10/25
Home Mountain: Whistler, B.C.
Stance: Goofy

Riders on the Storm star Steve Graham may have broken his leg hitting a tree in Critical Condition, but it’s his heart that breaks every time he sees our second-most influential female ride. “Victoria is a smooth-turning fall line chaser, and also is the cutest hippie I’ve ever met.”

Victoria Jealouse took the skills she learned on the Canadian national ski team in the eighties and turned them into snowboard-racing success in the nineties. Among her accomplishments in the speed events are four US Open podium appearances (including a Super-G win in 1995) and several Legendary Mt. Baker Banked Slalom titles. Yet we all know that the racing wasn’t what earned Vic her rank on this list. From park (switch backside fives) to pipe (overhead methods) to off-piste (Chugach charger), Victoria has been leading the pack for years. Jumping with Jussi’s Jussi Oksanen has been in the game long enough to observe that “[Victoria’s] been doing some full-on lines for decades that most other riders couldn’t step up to.”

As the Grande Dame of first descents, Victoria has more years filming under her belt than most of today’s female phenoms have outside the womb, and all of these seasons were far from forgettable. Witness Standard Films TB series to see her legacy firsthand. Tara Dakides attests that Vic “Blows the doors off as far as backcountry, longevity, and consistency of photos and video.” Speaking of doors, hot mama and star of 1995’s Dynasty, Barrett Christy, notes that “Vic has brought style to the backcountry and opened up those doors for other women to follow in her footsteps.” Jeremy Jones’s path to our sport’s peak, from speed suits and bibs to Pieps and probes, has paralleled that of Jealouse. Because of this, his insights are above reproach: “Vic has one of the top five turns in snowboarding, guy or girl. Her style is timeless, and for over ten years she has been freeriding better then 90% of the guys out there.” Even Lib Tech, a competitor of Victoria’s longtime sponsor Burton, honored her by putting her pow-spraying likeness on their Emma Peel freeride model in 1996.

Vic’s work ethic is still visible in the footage collected by TGR for Misschief, Runway, and Absinthe every year, further proving that she opens up doors and blows them off, but will never sit back and have them held for her. Unless, of course, it’s the door to a helicopter. Oh, wait—the helis she flies in don’t have doors.